‘The Sting’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.6 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey pull off the big con and revisit ‘The Sting’ to kick off Redford Month in honor of the late, great Robert Redford. 'The Sting' also stars Paul Newman and Robert Shaw and was directed by George Roy Hill. Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Ronak Nair, and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is sponsored by State Farm®️. A State Farm agent can help you choose the coverage you need. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.®️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The rewatchables, brought to by the Ringer podcast network. You can find the watch with CR.
0:05.3	Still there.
0:05.7	Who wrote his first site. Can't we ever the showrunner at task? Can you tell us?
0:10.8	Under the student in Brad Inglesby. That's right. Congratulations. Thank you. Sean Fantasy,
0:15.8	Big Picture. Hi. What was physical media, something, counsel, something? Yeah, we had a high council meeting, four guys. You're invited to the next one. Well, I just showed you my, make it a big five. I have a big stack now. Are you boosting now? Yeah. Well, so keep it low. Are you taking physical media creating? So CR came to the most recent episode. Yeah. He's done one episode a year, the last three years, and he walked away with like 40 Blu-rays.
0:40.2	Yeah.
0:40.4	How did that happen?
0:41.3	Because Tracy Letts has lots of doubles.
0:43.4	So he brought all of his doubles and gave him to Chris.
0:45.9	So if you want to double your stack, think about it.
0:49.1	2026.
0:50.2	Double my stack.
0:52.0	Speaking of doubling stack, we're doing this thing today because it's Redford month.
0:56.6	And we actually extended the month.
0:58.4	It starts on September.
0:59.5	We're doing five Redford movies and the rewatchables.
1:02.7	Some that we were,
1:03.7	they were always in the hopper to do anyway,
1:05.4	but we had to start with this thing,
1:07.1	an iconic movie that won best picture in 1973.
1:10.4	We'll be back in a second.
1:27.2	This thing, 1973, 1973, comes out in Christmas.
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